US Patent Issued to TMP WEAPONS on July 14 for "Safing sector and method of use" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,774, issued on July 14, was assigned to TMP WEAPONS LLC (Nev.).

"Safing sector and method of use" was invented by Joshua Phillip Alexander (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Stephen Mckinnley Estep (New River, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safing sector for a minigun including a housing with an opening adjacent to barrels of the minigun comprising a safing sector cover; one or more retaining pin assemblies configured to retain the cover to the housing over the opening; a safing sector slide member; a safing sector slide control mechanism including a locking arm configured to impart forward and rearward sliding movement of the safing se...